fellow strip builder
Erich: Hey Erich. Very nice to see you on the forum. Sorry I didn't get to meet you on the island on Mijn lake. My camp was over the hill on the other side of the island and I didn't learn of your visit to our camp until after you had gone. Sure would have liked to talk boat making with you guys. How about that kayak that Bud built? Isn't it a peice of art? And, he still hadn't sanded the last coat of epoxy and started giving it the 4 or 5 coats of varnish he planned to apply. Sorry also that we didn't stop by and see your shop and canoes in progress as Bud and others planned to do. Once we got on the road we just kept going. I do have your business card and hope to be able to stop in early next spring. I'm in Florida right now suffering thru the heat but it is one of the things I have to endure to retain my marriage. The wife likes to get here early, but I will return to Michigan next week to enjoy the fall hunting and color. Each spring, when we return North we take an expedition to The American Sault--hit all the casinos-in the Eastern U.P. and and the upper portion of the lower peninsula. I usually wander around, explore things, while she punches button on the whirly red sevens and other machines of fascination. SSssooo if possible I will likely cross the border and visit your shop. I'll call first. I sometimes go that way to see the sights when I visit my neices and nephews that live in and around Berrys Bay and Petawawa. My sister lives in Waterloo so we go there after the visits to her kids. The point is we get up that way often enough that chances are I will be able to stop in and swap stories about our mutual interest, building strippers. I think a group I belong to is scheduled to hold our semi-annual meeting at the Watertower Inn sometime in August . If I don't make it in the spring , probably will in August. Do you guys get to the States very often. If you do please consider joining some of us on one of our canoe trips. Won't be quite like Mijin but we got some beautiful areas we enjoy when we can. Later Erich. Al Dasen-(sometimes called Michstripcanoe,or Dapper Al) just so they don' call me late for a meal.
This just reinforces the notion. :lol:
